We're no mathematicians, but this seems obvious. Dreamgirls didn't get to number one in the US weekend box office and Norbit did – so Norbit is the better film and Eddie Murphy should have got an Oscar nomination for that film instead of Dreamgirls.
But oh no – the Oscars voters still seem steadfastly intent on rewarding Eddie Murphy for Dreamgirls over his box office-topping work in Norbit, and that's the way it seems it'll stay – no matter how hard we lobby for the inclusion of a Best Black Actor Dressed Up In A Fatsuit And Pretending To Be A Woman category in the Oscars. That's a shame, because Eddie Murphy in Norbit would have walked it over this year's competitors Martin Lawrence in Big Momma's House 2 and Tyler Perry in Family Reunion.
Sometimes we get the feeling that Mel B wields more power in Hollywood than we could ever have assumed. After all, who else apart from the spurned possible mother of Eddie Murphy's unborn child could possible think that releasing a dippy lowbrow knockabout fatsuit comedy like Norbit two weeks before Eddie Murphy stands a chance of winning an Oscar for Dreamgirls was anywhere near being a good idea? Having said that, Norbit is now top of the US weekend box office, so in your goddamn face Scary Spice. Here's this week's US weekend box office top five…
1 – Norbit (Perhaps Eddie Murphy will start winning awards for Norbit after all – all that needs to happen is for a high-profile black man in a female fat suit to die like James Brown did to turn his previous comedic role into a poignant tour de force again) $33,740,000
2 – Hannibal Rising (So Hannibal Lecter started eating people because he saw bandits eating his sister as a child. We can totally identify – hecklerspray only exists because we once saw bandits write a pithy online commentary about Keith Urban as a child) $13,350,000
3 – Because I Said So (Because I Said So has been called the ideal date movie for people who hate women and watching all films. By us. Just now) $9,041,000
4 – The Messengers (Of all the ways to send a message, sending floorboard-crawling half-mute scabby infant zombies doesn't really seem all that efficient. Perhaps if someone sent a "There's a madman coming to kill you and your family" email it would have saved a lot of bother in retrospect) $7,200,000
5 – Night At The Museum (Night At The Museum's march up the all-time box office charts continues apace. That that, Men In Black II) $5,750,000
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nosebag says
yeah, what is it with black actors dressing up as fat women? What a perculier trait